[1] He was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge and admitted to the Middle Temple in 1557.
In 1560 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Ingleby of Ripley Castle, and they moved to Parcevall Hall, part of the manor of Appletreewick, a former possession of Bolton Priory bought by Peter's father in 1549.
[2] When his father died in 1568 he inherited the extensive former Byland Abbey estates in Nidderdale, which his father had bought in 1547, as well as Appletreewick manor, which included valuable mining rights at Greenhow Hill.
[4] In his will, proved on 4 July 1589, Yorke left most of his estates to his eldest son John.
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